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Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Despite what it says in the intro this is episode 44. I talk to spider advocate Tea Francis about the relationship between ladybirds and spiders. We talk about the rare and beautiful Ladybird Spider, what spiders do with ladybirds in their webs, spiders which eat aphids, how to start keeping invertebrates and more!
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Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Steve Allain talks me through the changes to protection of endangered species and possible threats to their survival from proposed government legislation and changes to their status. Please note it says 'episode 44' in the intro because it's being released slightly out of order...
Record sightings with the irecord app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.ceh.irecord
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/02/red-squirrels-and-pine-martens-could-lose-protection-in-uk-review-say-experts
Info about the changes from the ARG: https://www.arguk.org/get-involved/news/7th-quinquennial-review-qqr-of-schedules-5-and-8-of-the-wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-a-summary-by-arg-uk
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Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
This week's episode is all about the twice-stabbed ladybug. Found in North America, this ladybird has interesting genetics and a weird lifestyle. Plus, hear an update with new information about the kidney spot!
Podcast recommendation - The Wild Episode with Brian Ruckley. Follow https://twitter.com/WildEpisode or www.wildepisode.com :)
Sources:
Picture used in show notes by Parihav at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/6/368 - Rigorous Morphological Studies Confirm That the Classical Object of Pest Control Chilocorus kuwanae Is the Same Species as Ch. renipustulatus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
https://biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/predators/Chilocoruss.php
https://www.scielo.br/j/gmb/a/dhbZYvwxrYCKKhnK3SmHJTs/abstract/?lang=en - Information on the XY chromosomes
https://www.nature.com/articles/1931210a0 - Polymorphic chromosomes
https://bugguide.net/node/view/817339 - Another similar ladybird :)
https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/gtr/gtr_wo37/18_mayer_wo37.pdf - Chilocorus stigma and beech scale
https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficials/beneficial-16_twicestabbed_ladybug.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16334330/
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VGQiB01pBeIC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=chilocorus+stigma+mussel+scale&source=bl&ots=XrXmUpe-Se&sig=ACfU3U02pJOEFxUgGz5r2UaebZWKk5m6UQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvhJXfve_xAhVNSsAKHR_SC1QQ6AEwCXoECAcQAw#v=onepage&q=chilocorus%20stigma%20mussel%20scale&f=false - Chapter from Ivo Hodek's book with info on low survival rates on Mussel Scale.
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Saturday Jul 10, 2021
Saturday Jul 10, 2021
Find out about a ladybird with square spots that can be said to resemble a clown face, a football, an emoji, an anchor and more!
This week's podcast recommendation is @PodcastSpecies - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zYTg2YzFmMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==
Talk Ag To Me episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladybird-lady-talk-ag-to-me-ft-rachael-from-hidden/id1481265957?i=1000528087613
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Arabic transcription of Episode 36 (Ladybirds in Palestine) now on Opinya Times! https://www.opinyatimes.com/%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a9-%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%81%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b7%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a5%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85/?fbclid=IwAR0uqJdG1Bw7h-xv_HmL8zk3CWt4kSF1_DbvlH-xwHnnyC-xpBiUtJSlFFY
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/technology/propylaeum
https://www.ukbeetles.co.uk/propylea - More info on diet and lifestyle :)
https://www.eje.cz/pdfs/eje/2005/03/17.pdf - Life expectancy and fertility with 6 species of aphid
https://www.eje.cz/pdfs/eje/2008/03/09.pdf
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Saturday Jul 03, 2021
Saturday Jul 03, 2021
I talk to paranormal investigator CJ Romer about his memories of 1976, the year when 23 billion ladybirds invaded the UK. We have a fun conversation about his recollection of the ladybird invasion, the sensationalism of the media, how to communicate with a ghostly ladybird and more!
You can read more about CJ's work at ASSAP, the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena here: http://www.assap.ac.uk/
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
You might have heard about the ladybird invasion of 1976. In Part 1 of this special 2-part episode, I talk about what happened in that famous year and talk about possible scientific explanations of what might have happened, as well as the impact on the society and community.
Podcast recommendation this week is Ungagged! Please check out our film club discussion here: http://leftungagged.org/2021/06/28/film-club-pride-2014/
Sources:
Newspaper articles from the Mirror, the Birkenhead News, the Sun and other local and national newspapers, kindly uploaded by Christian Jensen Romer.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/may/17/water.ethicalliving
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35603972
https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/219043/re-ladybird-swarm-1976.html
https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/ladybird-invasion-swarms-uk-population-explosion-season-181142
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0006320778900022
http://lostladybug.org/file_uploads/WashupEntAmericana.pdf
https://eje.cz/pdfs/eje/1993/04/04.pdf - Ivo Hodek's study
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0082278
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan-Minchin/publication/274475587_A_swarm_of_the_seven-spot_ladybird_Coccinella_septempunctata_Coleoptera_Coccinellidae_carried_on_a_cruise_ship/links/595caa7eaca272f3c08f510e/A-swarm-of-the-seven-spot-ladybird-Coccinella-septempunctata-Coleoptera-Coccinellidae-carried-on-a-cruise-ship.pdf - Hibernating 7-spots on a Moroccan cruise ship :)
http://la.climatologie.free.fr/secheresse/drought-heat_wave1.htm - Drought in France
https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/les-coccinelles-envahissent-le-littoral-larmor-plage-27639
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002017907790035X
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Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Discover the world of the 6-spotted zigzag ladybird, a commonly found ladybird in India and the Pacific.
Picture used on the episode artwork by Renju from Kerala, India (user: Renjusplace on wikipedia) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheilomenes_sexmaculata,_ladybird_10.jpg
Sources:
http://indianladybirds.myspecies.info/gallery
https://www.angelfire.com/bug2/j_poorani/
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9780429061400-14/coccinellidae-indian-subcontinent-poorani
https://jpp.um.ac.ir/article/view/50296/article_36723.html?lang=en
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1409806002
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3c16/014a12c1ca2f652f3f522bf7cd9481081204.pdf
https://www.entomoljournal.com/archives/2016/vol4issue5/PartH/4-5-41-780.pdf
https://www.academia.edu/14764698/Cheilomenes_Sexmaculata_The_Six_Spotted_Zigzag_Ladybird_Beetle
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Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
A deep dive into the relationships between ladybirds and ants. With a podcast recommendation for Just Plain Wrong - @plainwrongpod on Twitter.
My apologies for the muffled audio quality on this episode - in the first version it sounded very uneven.
Sources:
https://billsbirding.blogspot.com/2014/06/scarce-7-spot-ladybird.html
Evolutionary Perspectives on Myrmecophily in Ladybirds: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/2012/591570/
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/110769/globe_marked_lady_beetles_azya_orbigera.html - Globe Marked ladybeetles
https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/southern-africa/view/project/645756/indigenous-ladybird-species-distribution-in-south-africa-coccinellidae/observations - Photo of the blue-eyed ant munching lady beetle
Field Guide to the Ladybirds of Great Britain and Ireland
Spotlight Ladybirds by Richard Comont
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331072095_High_parasitization_of_a_rare_ladybird_Platynaspis_luteorubra_-_a_reason_of_its_rarity - High parasitisation of Platynaspis luteorubra
A Natural History of Ladybird Beetles by Michael Majerus et al
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40863799
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10905-008-9163-y
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/ants/black-garden-ant
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/ants/yellow-meadow-ant
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/ants/Myrmica_ruba.htm
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4221364?seq=1 - Waxy coatings on Scymnus ladybirds.
https://thecreative.cafe/the-fable-of-the-ant-and-the-ladybug-31115946df22?gi=a382b2df1244#:~:text=The%20Fable%20of%20the%20Ant%20and%20the%20Ladybug.,at%20all.%20In%20fact%2C%20it%20was%20a%20ladybug%21 - The fable of the ant and the ladybug
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/large-blue/id1334821500?i=1000519771414 - Species Podcast episode on the Large Blue butterfly
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Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
In 2019 Mohammad Najajrah and Mazin Qumsiyeh from the Palestine Museum of Natural History, at the University of Bethlehem, carried out the first ever study of ladybirds in the West Bank. They found 35 species. In this episode, I talked to them about their work, how the Israeli occupation is affecting nature and the environment in Palestine, how ladybirds are viewed in Palestinian culture and more.
You can read the study here: https://www.palestinenature.org/fr/research/Najajrahet-al-2019.pdf
https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol23-1/an-environmental-nakba-the-palestinian-environment-under-israeli-colonization/ - Mazin's article on the environmental effects of Israeli policies.
https://smujo.id/biodiv/article/view/3587 - Article about birds in Gaza by Abdel Fattah Abd Rabou.
https://www.dw.com/en/70-years-of-nakba-the-ongoing-struggle-of-palestinian-refugees/a-43798899 - More about the Nakba and interviews with survivors.
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Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
Learn about a newly discovered ladybird from the Shirkuh mountain range in Iran, only confirmed as a new species in 2020.
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of a ladybird's genitalia.
Listen to the UK Wildlife Podcast's latest episode here: http://www.uk-wildlife.co.uk/ep50-9-wildlife-podcasters-in-1-podcast/
Out for a walk podcast: https://www.outforawalk.uk/ or @outforawalkpod
Massive thank you to Mehdi Zare Khormizi for all the help he gave me on this episode. You can follow him on @ladybugs.ir.
Picture by Alexander Slutsky: http://www.alsphotopage.com/gallery/index/id/15304
You can view more of his pictures here: http://www.alsphotopage.com/gallery/index/id/6312/list/latestcom
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirkuh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazd_Province
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/46390/ - Oenopia shirkuhensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from Iran mimicking Adalia bipunctata.
https://researchoutreach.org/articles/scientists-join-dots-between-lady-beetles-iran/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mehdi-Zare-Khormizi - Mehdi's research page.
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